Ubuntu Trusty Partial Updates on New Install?

[Redalien0304]

Just installed Ubuntu Trusty via Live CD 1/18/2014. Updated then got list of Partial Updates. Have NOT installed Anything, Just LiveCD install & thats it.
is this normal or what?
here is the Partial upgrade List:

raig@craig-Latitude-D830:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
account-plugin-aim account-plugin-jabber account-plugin-salut
account-plugin-yahoo cheese cheese-common empathy empathy-common
evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common evolution-data-server-goa
evolution-data-server-uoa gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-totem-1.0
gir1.2-webkit-3.0 gstreamer1.0-clutter ibus-pinyin ibus-pinyin-db-android
libcamel-1.2-45 libcheese-gtk23 libcheese7 libclutter-1.0-0
libclutter-gst-2.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0
libnm-gtk-common libnm-gtk0 libnss3 libqt5core5 libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5
libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5sql5
libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5test5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5 libtotem0
libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
mcp-account-manager-uoa modemmanager nautilus-sendto-empathy network-manager
network-manager-gnome python-pil totem totem-common totem-mozilla
totem-plugins unity-webapps-service
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 55 not upgraded.

[Frogs Hair]

Partial updates are often part of per-release testing. Moved to Ubuntu + 1

[OrangeCrate]

Do this, in this exact order:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get autoremove

That should do it.

(And yes, you can combine some of those command together with &&, but, let's keep it simple.)

Reference for all things APT, so that you have some idea of what you just did:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

[Cavsfan]

You can also make aliases out of those CLI update/upgrade commands:

gedit ~/.bashrc in terminal.

add the blue lines after the other lines and save the file:

# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'


# update aliases
alias ud='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get clean'
alias ud2='sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'
alias ud3='sudo apt-get autoremove'

Logout and back in and then all you have to do is enter ud and your password in terminal to get your updates.
If there is anything held back after getting all of the above updates, enter ud2.

That will pull in upgraded packages that also need to install new packages. A new kernel is a good example of where you would use ud2.

Then if you see it says you have unnecessary packages installed and it says enter apt-get autoremove to get rid of them just enter ud3 and that will do the job.

This is how I always get my updates and it works well.

[zika]

Do this, in this exact order:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get autoremove

That should do it.

(And yes, you can combine some of those command together with &&, but, let's keep it simple.)

Reference for all things APT, so that you have some idea of what you just did:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

When using

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

also be very awake and look very carefully if some of package You might need are going to be removed...

[grahammechanical]

I hope we have not forgotten this advice

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2181769

I have only once accepted the offer to run a partial upgrade when using the development branch. Never again! In the early weeks of the development cycle not all the repositories are open and we get a message about that. Later on in the cycle we get the partial upgrade message. Such is life.

Regards.

[OrangeCrate]

Lighten up kids, the OP is trying to sort out a fresh install.

Just installed Ubuntu Trusty via Live CD

If you have a better scheme on helping him out with his problem, post a solution, not some apocalyptic warning about taking a partial upgrade.

On the other hand, he hasn't responded to any of the posts, so, maybe the world did end for him.

[Cavsfan]

Lighten up kids, the OP is trying to sort out a fresh install.



If you have a better scheme on helping me out of his problem, post a solution, not some apocalyptic warning about taking a partial upgrade.

On the other hand, he hasn't responded to any of the posts, so, may the world did end for him.

+1 LoL!

[Redalien0304]

ok Updated with Partial Upgrade no Problems. Even installed Cinnamon Desktop Nightly. No problems there either. Thanks OrangeCrate for full lis of commands. Cavsfan i skipped on making aliases out of the command, no need to make more complicated. thanks all

[Cavsfan]

Cavsfan i skipped on making aliases out of the command, no need to make more complicated. thanks all

Glad to see you got it going but, the aliases were to make it easier not more complicated lol.